Ruben Navarrette: Dancing a two-step on immigration

3:23 AM,
Mar. 7, 2013

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The Obama administration has spun so many yarns about its deportation policy that it can't keep them straight.

In August 2011, White House officials announced that the Department of Homeland Security would no longer spend "limited resources" actively seeking to apprehend and deport illegal immigrants who don't have criminal records. Under current U.S. code, entering the United States illegally is usually a civil infraction and not a criminal one.

Last week, in a transparent attempt to turn the screws on Republicans demanding spending cuts, the DHS announced that it was releasing from ...